organisms

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These mats are made up of microscopic organisms such as algae and bacteria that bind sediment together and leave distinctive surface textures behind.

From Science Daily • Jun. 26, 2026

Instead, they contend that if consciousness occurs among behaviorally sophisticated beings, it would be odd to conclude that only organisms with biology resembling ours could experience it.

From Science Daily • Jun. 24, 2026

"These ecosystems are very dynamic, and the algal composition is changing really quickly," she says, adding that the pool should be monitored constantly "to know which organisms are living there".

From BBC • Jun. 22, 2026

Working evenings at the Harlem Hospital, he invented a method for characterizing bacterial organisms in patients with pneumonia, publishing his first paper at the age of 21.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 21, 2026

In short, genetic information must have been transmitted between two organisms in a purely chemical form, allowing that transition from the rough-coated to the smooth-coated variant.

From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee